Functional/Reliability Testing

Functional Testing

Functional testing ensures that ATP products match the product specifications agreed upon by ATP and the industrial/OEM customer, and also ensures the compatibility of each product in diverse host environments. ATP functional tests include:

Environmental/Mechanical Tests : Mechanical tests verify the conformity of the mechanical designs with major industry standards, such as SDA, CFA, and JEDEC. Moreover, a few environmental tests are designed to ensure that the products can function normally in extreme temperatures, shock and vibration scenarios. The products are tested in different operating parameters, such as at extremely high/ low temperatures, with intensive shock, or in constant vibration modes. Also, in order to make sure the products can be stored in a harsh environment, high temperature/high humidity storage tests are simultaneously conducted. With various environmental challenges, tests, such as the salt water spray test and UV light exposure test, are also administered.

Compatibility Tests : Compatibility tests ensure that ATP products are compatible with various operating systems (Windows OS,or Linux), interface commands (DDR3, SATA, USB…etc), and different card readers/digital cameras/motherboards. A testing matrix of products, operating systems, and interfaces is formed to seek out any possible issue that may occur during the user’s experience.

Certificate and Compliance Tests : Given that different countries and regions require products to comply with various industrial or environmental standards such as CE, FCC, RoHS, Reach, UL94, IP67,US MIL and WHQL, ATP products undergo these tests with a third party agency.

Reliability Testing

Reliability tests measure product functionality during an interval of time in a real-life environment. The failure rate of electronic products over time is commonly termed as the “Bath Tub Curve”. There are three time zones in the following graph: a) Zone I illustrates a high, but rapidly decreasing failure rate in the early stage, which is normally caused by manufacturing defects. ATP employs long-hour and high temperature “burn-in tests” to weed out defective products and thus significantly lower the failure at this stage. b) Zone II, the middle stage, is the service life stage. Failure at this stage is usually caused by random failures. This is where ATP’s robust product designs and high quality can minimize the failure rate and extend the product service life. c) Zone III is the “worn-out period”. Long operating hours and harsh application environments gradually deteriorate the integrity of the products.

Given that performance can drop over a long period of time, the major fields in reliability testing include: environmental tests (such as operating tests in extreme high/low temperatures, storage tests in high temperature/high humidity environment, salt water spray and UV light espouser tests, shock and vibration tests… etc) and electrical tests (include extensive on/off cycling tests and contact and non-contact EST test.)

The ATP research and development team is committed to providing the highest quality products, each test is rigorously designed to ensure the ATP brand